3 Tips to Have a Healthier Halloween

HALLOWEEN…. this one night can easily set your family up for a week or two or three of sugar overload (plus all the artificial colors and flavors!)

Here are my favorite 3 tricks for having a FUN Halloween without compromising your healthy living too much.

1. Have a healthy themed after school snack or dinner before they start trick or treating. Heathy can be fun too, so why not start the night with jack o lantern stuffed peppers, sweet potato chips and jack o lantern orange fruit cups. Check out my Healthy Halloween Pinterest Board for more ideas. Kids that have a full tummy are less likely to overdo the sugar!

2. Donate Extra Candy. My kids LOVE to Trick or treat and they always return with more candy than they should eat. Much of the candy is the same- Do they really need to eat all 10 snickers bars they got?! No. I let my kids choose 10 snack sized items they want to keep and the rest of the candy is donated.

3. We give out some non candy treats, too! I want my kids to know that holidays are about people and not just the food. We have given out pencils, stickers, bubbles, glow sticks and bouncy balls.